OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
That offensive performance was a systemic failure. You can point to players, coaches, and facets individually or just look at it as one big mess.
Bad plan going in, bad execution of it, inability to adapt, and on and on. Lack of coach to player, player to player, and player to coach confidence and trust. I would label it as an approach that seems willing to tolerate ineffectiveness in exchange for maintaining low risk - which makes no sense if your goal is to win the game.
This was Tressel-ball, but Tressel wasn't on the sideline orchestrating it. It's often been ugly, but that's ok as long as the end result is a win. When it's ugly and you lose, well, it becomes intolerably ugly.
Some of us may yearn for the wide open, high risk-high reward offense, but when we lose a game because we can't run out the clock, everyone will be pining for the days of Tressel-ball.
This Miami game reminded me of the ucla game about 10 years ago. We went out there and couldn't run, pass, score, or anything. But it got straightened out eventually with more coaching and the right players.
When Tressel was willing to up the risk and take his shots, his offense was fun and pretty. We just don't have the horses to run that race right now.
As a side note, I've seen some stupid plays called in my time, but running Joe on the zone read and letting him keep it is my most recent winner. The only thing that makes it less stupid is if it was scripted and Miller was supposed to be in there, but there was a mix up. :)
Bad plan going in, bad execution of it, inability to adapt, and on and on. Lack of coach to player, player to player, and player to coach confidence and trust. I would label it as an approach that seems willing to tolerate ineffectiveness in exchange for maintaining low risk - which makes no sense if your goal is to win the game.
This was Tressel-ball, but Tressel wasn't on the sideline orchestrating it. It's often been ugly, but that's ok as long as the end result is a win. When it's ugly and you lose, well, it becomes intolerably ugly.
Some of us may yearn for the wide open, high risk-high reward offense, but when we lose a game because we can't run out the clock, everyone will be pining for the days of Tressel-ball.
This Miami game reminded me of the ucla game about 10 years ago. We went out there and couldn't run, pass, score, or anything. But it got straightened out eventually with more coaching and the right players.
When Tressel was willing to up the risk and take his shots, his offense was fun and pretty. We just don't have the horses to run that race right now.
As a side note, I've seen some stupid plays called in my time, but running Joe on the zone read and letting him keep it is my most recent winner. The only thing that makes it less stupid is if it was scripted and Miller was supposed to be in there, but there was a mix up. :)
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